Register
Sign In
Subscribe
Advertise
Publications
Photonics Spectra
BioPhotonics
Vision Spectra
Photonics Showcase
Photonics Buyers' Guide
Photonics Handbook
Photonics Dictionary
Newsletters
Bookstore
News & Features
Latest News
Latest Products
Features
All Things Photonics Podcast
By Technology
Lasers & Light Sources
Optics
Materials & Coatings
Imaging
Sensors & Detectors
Test & Measurement
Integrated Photonics
Spectroscopy
Biophotonics
Machine Vision
Marketplace
Supplier Search
Product Search
Career Center
Webinars & Events
Webinars
Photonics Media Virtual Events
Industry Events Calendar
Resources
White Papers
Videos
Contribute an Article
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a Member
Publications
Photonics Spectra
BioPhotonics
Vision Spectra
Photonics Showcase
Photonics Buyers' Guide
Photonics Handbook
Photonics Dictionary
Newsletters
Bookstore
News & Features
Latest News
Latest Products
Features
All Things Photonics Podcast
By Technology
Lasers & Light Sources
Optics
Materials & Coatings
Imaging
Sensors & Detectors
Test & Measurement
Integrated Photonics
Spectroscopy
Biophotonics
Machine Vision
Marketplace
Supplier Search
Product Search
Career Center
Webinars & Events
Webinars
Photonics Media Virtual Events
Industry Events Calendar
Resources
White Papers
Videos
Contribute an Article
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a Member
Register
Sign In
submit press release
National Ignition Facility News
Exail Signs LLNL Contract, Partners with Eelume
SAINT-GERMAIN EN LAYE, France, April 26, 2024 — Exail, a high-tech industrial group specializing in photonics technologies, has signed a contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to provide more than 60 dual-stage modulators to the equip the high-fidelity pulse shaping (HiFiPS) system at the National Ignition Facility (NIF)’s master oscillator room. This is the second optical component ordered from Exail to enhance NIF’s capabilities. The NIF target bay at LLNL. Exail’s previously supplied optical
Research Project Will Revamp Fusion Analysis Method
DRESDEN, Germany, March 25, 2024 — A research project undertaken by the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to overhaul an analytical tool used to evaluate laser fusion. The work is being funded by the European Union...
Longview Fusion Energy Advances Plan for Fusion Power Plant
LIVERMORE, Calif., March 12, 2024 — Longview Fusion Energy Systems said last week that it has enlisted engineering and construction firm Fluor to design a laser fusion power plant — a step toward the company's stated goal of delivering power to the grid via its fusion pilot plant by...
Birefringent Metasurface Aims to Transform Waveplate Tech
LIVERMORE, Calif., Oct. 17, 2023 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have adapted their novel metasurface process, which creates a thin layer on the surface of an optic, to create an all-glass metasurface with birefringence, or dual refraction, properties....
NIF Scientists Claim Repeat Fusion Breakthrough
LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2023 — Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have reportedly advanced last December’s laser fusion breakthrough result. For the second time, scientists obtained more energy from a fusion...
Nuclear Fusion Drives Laser Development
Apr 3, 2023 — It is a rare event when a successful experiment in basic research makes it to the evening news. In December 2022, the U.S. secretary of energy announced a breakthrough in laser-based nuclear fusion. The news was covered in all major media around the...
LLNL’s Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Offers Step to Clean Energy
LIVERMORE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2022 — Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have made a significant breakthrough in ongoing nuclear fusion research. The scientists created a fusion reaction that produced more energy than...
Laser Blazes New Milestone Toward Self-Sustaining Fusion Energy
LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 3, 2022 — Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (LLNL NIF) said that, for the first time, physicists have engineered and tested a laser system in which fusion itself — as opposed to external heating...
Aspheric Optics for Nuclear Research
Aug 5, 2019 — Nuclear research laser facilities around the world increasingly use powerful, amplified, ultrashort-duration pulses of coherent light to deliver massive energy densities at a given target. The synchronized delivery of such high-power pulses...
National Ignition Facility Sets New Laser Energy Record
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 10, 2018 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser system has set a new record, firing 2.15 MJ of energy to its target chamber. This is a 15 percent improvement over NIF’s design specification of 1.8...
Photonics Education: Where is Everybody?
Sep 14, 2015 — John-Kevin Frazee put himself through community college while working for minimum wage at a grocery store. After graduating in 2011, he took jobs growing laser crystals and processing LED wafers. By age 23, he'd earned enough to buy a house. "With...
Zygo Receives Support Order for Laser Fusion Amplifiers
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., March 18, 2014— Zygo Corp. has been awarded a $1.4 million contract to produce meter-class laser fusion amplifiers for laboratory testing purposes.
After Fusion Failure, NIF Shifts Priorities
LIVERMORE, Calif., May 6, 2013 — Having failed to achieve fusion by its target date, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is shifting its priorities and has replaced longtime director Dr. Edward Moses, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director Parney Albright announced last...
Simulations Uncover Obstacle to Harnessing Laser-driven Fusion
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 27, 2013 — A once-promising approach for using next-generation, ultra-intense lasers to help deliver commercially viable fusion energy has been brought into serious question by new experimental results and first-of-a-kind simulations of laser-plasma...
That’s No Moon: Deconstructing the Death Star
Dec 14, 2012 — In the original Star Wars movie Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi begin to ask thought-provoking questions about the amount of energy needed to vaporize an entire planet, and what sort of laser could achieve this. Maybe an hour into the...
NIF’s 500-TW Laser Shot Sets Record
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 17, 2012 — The National Ignition Facility’s 192-beam laser system delivered a record-breaking 500 TW of peak power and 1.85 MJ of ultraviolet laser light to its target, validating laser performance specifications set at the facility in the late 1990s.
HiPER to Expand Europe’s Role in Laser-Driven Nuclear Fusion Technology
Jun 1, 2012 — In November 2010, the US’ National Ignition Facility fired the first shot toward a clean energy future. And Europe’s HiPER project will answer the call to arms. Coal, oil and other fossil fuels may or may not have staying power beyond...
NIF Fires Record-Setting Laser Shot
LIVERMORE, Calif., March 22, 2012 — The 192 lasers fired in unison at the National Ignition Facility this week delivered a record 1.875 million joules of ultraviolet laser light to its target chamber, exceeding NIF’s original design specification and setting the stage for...
SPIE CEO: Photonics Industry Growing
HONG KONG, Dec. 7, 2011 — The demand for photonics is large and on the way to becoming "enormous," yet the ubiquitous technology remains nearly invisible to the general public, SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs told participants last month at the Hong Kong Optical Engineering...
Laser Technology
Jul 1, 2010 — If one reviews what happened in the first 50 years of the laser’s history, it becomes quite a challenge to predict what will happen in the next 50. Lasers went from being called “a solution in search of a problem” to becoming an...
Backlighting fusion
Apr 12, 2010 — Harnessing fusion energy requires achieving the milestone of fusion ignition in the laboratory. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., researchers are attempting indirect drive inertial...
Crystal-Clear Research
Apr 12, 2010 — Exciting new findings about crystals – on subjects as diverse as diamonds, peptide nanofibers and colloids – could prove useful in science and industry, perhaps leading to new nanoscale constructs and better electronics. Diamond in...
NIF Achieves Historic Laser Shot
LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 1, 2010 – Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have delivered a historic level of laser energy – more than 1 megajoule – to a t...
Laser Gauges Diamond’s Strength
LIVERMORE, Calif., Jan. 28, 2010 – Diamond, one of the hardest solids on Earth, is so strong that it can easily cut through glass and steel. Surprisingly, very little is known about the strength of diamond at ex...
Laser Trends: Come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab
Jan 4, 2010 — Laser achievements in the laboratory this past year ranged from some of the smallest ever made to some of the largest, from the debut of the world’s first hard x-ray free-electron laser to creation of the most powerful light ray yet by a solid-state...
1
2
>
(49 results found)
April 2024
Subscribe
Advertise
Issue Library
Latest Products
Robotic Guidance Vision Solution
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
Ultraviolet Camera
XIMEA GmbH
100W LED Pattern Projectors
Opto Engineering S.p.A.
AI Imaging Video Processor
Teledyne FLIR
Optical CMM 3D Scanners
Creaform Inc.
Wireless 3D Scanner
Scantech (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd.
Imaging Colorimeter
Radiant Vision Systems, Test & Measurement
OSFP Transceiver
Approved Networks
12MP Polarization Camera
Alkeria srl
3D Lidar Solutions
Quanergy Solutions Inc.
Features
3D-Stacked CMOS Sparks Imaging’s Innovation Era
Photonics Spectra
, Apr 2024
Software-Defined Photonics Orchestrates Light in Future Data Centers
Photonics Spectra
, Apr 2024
A Quantum Leap for Sensitive Gas Analysis
Photonics Spectra
, Apr 2024
Explore Our Content
News
Features
Latest Products
Webinars
White Papers
All Things Photonics Podcast
Videos
Our Summits & Conferences
Industry Events
Bookstore
Join Our Community
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a member
Sign in
Contribute a Feature
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Mobile Apps
About Us
Our Company
Our Publications
Contact Us
Career Opportunities
Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
©2024 Photonics Media
100 West St.
Pittsfield, MA, 01201 USA
[email protected]
We use cookies to improve user experience and analyze our website traffic as stated in our
Privacy Policy
. By using this website, you agree to the use of
cookies
unless you have disabled them.